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UPDATE: A meeting has been closed. Please download full conference proceedings if you would like (pdf, 15mb)
We are pleased to announce and to invite you
to attend the 18th Conference on Current Trends in Computational Chemistry (CCTCC). This symposium, organized by Jackson State University, covers all areas of computational chemistry as well as quantum chemistry. This year the 18th CCTCC will be held at the Hilton Jackson Hotel, Jackson, Mississippi on October 30 — 31, 2009. A banquet is scheduled for the Saturday evening and a dinner and reception for Friday.
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The format consists of a series of (invited) plenary
lectures and poster presentations on Friday and Saturday
covering applications as well as theory.  As suggested by Professor John Pople, several years ago we inaugurated a new tradition for the second decade of our conferences. Starting with the 11th CCTCC each meeting is featuring a talk named after eminent computational chemists. This year the eights
presentation in this series will be given by Professor William H. Miller from the University of California, Berkeley. The 18th Conference will also feature another talk given in the ancillary Noble Lecture Series. The lectures in this series are presented in a relaxed, after-dinner atmosphere by the noble speakers and are devoted to noble scientific events and people. As such, it is an exceptional lecture to the conference and, contrary to the regular talks, might not necessarily report any Current findings.
We are
planning to publish extended abstracts (up to four pages
each) of all invited talks and poster presentations.
Topics to be cover
The conference topics will include current progress in development of computational methods and their applications in research. Among the CCTCC-18 topics are:
1. Developments of the DFT methods.
2. Applications of computational methods towards biological species.
3. Solvent effects
4. Environmental fate of nitrocompounds
5. Computer design of new materials
6. Interactions of Nerve Agents with environment
7. Properties of nanomaterials
8. Kinetics of decomposition of explosives
9. Application of Computational Chemistry for atmospheric reactions
10. Stability of chemical compounds
Tentative list of invited speakers:
Victor Batista, Yale University
Matthias Bickelhaupt, der Vrije University, Holland
Sylvio Canuto, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Cary Chabalowski, US Army
Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Anna Krylov, University of Southern California
William Miller, University of California, Berkeley
Gabor Naray-Szabo, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary
John Perdew, Tulane University
Oleg Shishkin, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
Donald Thompson, University of Missouri-Columbia
Alex Tropsha, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
As
usual,
Parallel Quantum Solutions will award monetary
prizes to the three best student posters. |
